1416–17 in C. M. Woolgar (1992) II. 509 Et x godewytys.
1544 21 May p. i Goodwithez fat, not aboue the price of .xii.d. the pece.
1579 J. Jones i. xiv. 26 Dottrel, Snipe, Godwipe, Dicken [etc.].
1616 B. Jonson Epicœne i. iv, in I. 538 Halfe a dosen of phesants, a dosen or two of godwits . View more context for this quotation
a1682 Sir T. Browne Norfolk Birds in (1835) IV. 319 Godwyts..accounted the daintiest dish in England; and, I think, for the bigness, of the biggest price.
1785 T. Pennant II. 502 The bird called by Mr. Edwards..the White Godwit from Hudson's Bay, seems to the same with this.
1853 C. Kingsley I. xi. 232 The whistle of the godwit and curlew, came ringing up the windings of the glen.
1863 A. Newton Notes Ornithol. Iceland in S. Baring-Gould App. A. 412 The black tailed godwit arrives the last week in April.
1914 A. E. Gathorne-Hardy iii. 49 Black and bar-tailed godwit found their way into the bag, and justified the testimony of our ancestors to their excellent flavour at table.
1930 27 Mar. 17/6 We see thousands of knots,..while redshanks and godwits, larger in size, are plentiful.
1994 20 Aug. f5/1 A supporting road more than 100 kilometres in length that would cut through one of the last undisturbed refuges of..rare bird species such as the gray-cheeked thrush, short-billed dowitcher, and Hudsonian godwit.
2006 G. C. Boere et al. 532/1 In the case of godwits which are crossing the entire Pacific, they must pass through at least five other latitudinal zones of defined winds and pressure.
